Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions

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Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions

Many expressivists have employed a claim about the practicality of morality in support of their view that moral convictions are not purely descriptive mental states. In this paper I argue that all extant arguments of this form fail. I distinguish six versions of such arguments and argue that in each...

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Main Author:	Sinclair, Neil
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer 2007
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1600/

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